Travelog for SeannaC

Shark Finning - a Global Overview

It’s been nearly five years since Rob Stewart showed the scale and severity of the illegal shark finning trade to the world in Shark Water, and demand for shark fin products had been on the increase years before that. But what’s the state of shark finning, shark populations and the action against shark finning right now?

Added: March 31st 2011 at 11:12am

Seeing Red on Christmas Island

Most of my holidays revolve around diving, or a place where I can at least snorkel, and the colour dominating my thoughts is always blue. Christmas Island’s waters are certainly that, crystal clear and a strikingly deep cobalt blue. This time around though, a colour at the other end of the spectrum filled my every waking thought in the days leading up to my trip to the isolated island in the eastern Indian Ocean. All I could think about was RED......

Added: January 14th 2011 at 2:43pm

Cocos Keeling Islands

Cocos Keeling is a widely unknown tropical island paradise but thanks its hosting of an UF11 Fringe Event it is about to be added to the holiday wish list of many of the region’s divers.The 29-island atoll may only be a four-hour flight from Perth, but it feels a world away from the hustle and bustle of the mainland....

Added: January 5th 2011 at 11:06am

Whyalla - Cuttlefish Mating Mecca and More

A four-hour drive west of Adelaide, Whyalla is a seaside mining town is known as the place “where the outback meets the sea”. To divers, Whyalla is known as Australia’s Cuttlefish Mecca. Each winter thousands of Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia apama) gather in the shallow waters around Whyalla to mate.

Added: November 10th 2010 at 1:38pm

Mon Repos Turtle Rookery

Just 15km east of Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia one of nature’s great events takes place. Each year, Loggerhead, Green and Flat-back turtles lay their eggs in the safety of the sand at Mon Repos Beach....

Added: September 1st 2010 at 10:26am

The T Intersection

Schools of many different species of fish take shelter in the T-intersection of Rapid Bay Jetty, South Australia.
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Added: March 10th 2010 at 3:03pm

Bullseyes

Yellow Bullseyes contrast nicely with the blue backdrop of Rapid Bay Jetty, South Australia.
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Added: March 10th 2010 at 2:56pm

Weedy

A Weedy Seadragon in front of the remaining kelp of the once great kelp forest of Fortescue Bay, Tasmania.
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Added: March 10th 2010 at 2:52pm

Kingfish with net

Yellowtail kingfish pictured against the edge of their pen in Fitzgerald Bay, Whyalla, South Australia.
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Added: March 10th 2010 at 2:44pm

Diving with Kingfish

Diver Audrey Pang prepares to enter the Yellowtail Kingfish aquaculture pens, which hold as many as 25,000 fish each, at Fitzgerald Bay, Whyalla, South Australia.
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Added: March 10th 2010 at 2:39pm

Small and hairy

A tiny crab was easy to spot during a night dive on the Liberty Wreck in Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia because of his hairy arms.
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Added: February 27th 2007 at 3:54am

A twinkle in his eyes.

A Pufferfish during a night dive at Coral Gardens, Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia.
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Added: February 27th 2007 at 3:44am

Anemone Crab in hiding

Anemone crab's hiding place spoiled during a night dive at Coral Gardens, Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia.
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Added: February 27th 2007 at 3:41am

Mimic Octopus

Mimic Octopus trying to avoid detection by mimicking a brittle star, taken at Secret Bay, northwest Bali, Indonesia.
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Added: February 27th 2007 at 3:37am

Crab in a bucket

Crab found in an old plastic bucket in Puri Jati, north coast of Bali, Indonesia.
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Added: February 27th 2007 at 2:19am